Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Newsletter published on April 11, 2017(1) Trump to ignite wars in
Korea & Syria - Peter Myers, April 11, 2017(2) Trump preparing
‘full-scale INVASION of Syria’: Shock claim from military expert(3)
National Security Advisor McMaster planning 'Full-Scale War' in Syria,
150,000 US troops(4) Ivanka Trump’s distress had ‘significant influence’ on
US air strikes in Syria, diplomat suggests(5) Alex Jones brands Jared
and Ivanka ‘enemies of the republic’ after Trump ally blames them for Syria
strike(6) How does US military power stack up against North Korea, China and
Russia?(7) Trump deploys SEALs to attack North Korea, secure nukes and
eliminate Kim(8) Blackwater founder Erik Prince admits ‘incidental’
Seychelles meeting with Russian during Trump transition

The strike
on Syria was made during Trump's dinner with Xi, showing the connection
between the Syria and Korea fronts.

North Korea's tests have been
foolish, because they energise the hawks in Japan to demand their own
offensive capability - they now want the ability to launch strikes,
independently of US forces. But North Korea's nukes are only defensive,
designed to stave off a US attack by promising to hit Soeul, thus making the
price too high (see item 6). Too high for anyone but Trump, that
is.

Trump's case in Syria is based on acceptance of Fake News, and
suppression of reports showing that the 2013 Gas attack was a False
Flag. Since Putin is not going to buy that, and Trump is likely to
invade, we will see a clash of the superpowers. Russia, with its back
against the wall, will not accept defeat there. Thus nuclear war
beckons.

Alex Jones has come out a champion. It seems that Jared Kushner
is the real President.

DONALD
Trump is paving the way for a full-scale invasion of Syria in a bid to
destroy Bashar al-Assad, a military expert has claimed

By Henry Holloway
/ Published 10th April 2017

US cruise missiles blitzed a Syrian airbase
last week in a shocking move which positioned President Trump against Russia
and Iran.

Trump’s assault on Syrian counterpart Assad has been backed by
Britain and the West but has him on a collision course with Russian
president Vladimir Putin.

Military experts from Turkey fear the worst
is yet to come and are drawing comparisons with the preparations for the
Iraq War in 2003.

The Syrian Chemical attack that pitted Trump against
Putin: could this be Cold War Two?Friday, 7th April 2017

The use of
chemical weapons against civilians in Syria has sparked a diplomatic
incident, as Trump's airstrikes has him squaring up to the Putin-supported
Assad regime. Could this be the start of a new Cold War?

"The US is
nurturing a plan of a full-scale intervention of Syria," warned Koray
Gurbuz, from the Ankara-based Bilkent University.

He suggested the US’s
goal in the war-torn nation is to install a government more supportive of
Washington in an "Iraqi scenario" to oust Assad like now-executed dictator
Saddam Hussein.

But Mr Gurbuz claimed further action to depose Assad
could work in favour of "terrorist groups" in the Middle East.

Trump
took action after the world condemned an alleged chemical weapons attack on
civilians in Syria.

Assad is believed to have been behind the horrifying
onslaught that killed 80 people in Idlib.

Syrian Army chiefs have
repeatedly denied the attack – but Trump said there "can be no dispute" the
dictator used "banned chemical weapons".

Mr Gurbuz accused Washington of
"violating international law" with the direct strike on Syria when speaking
to Sputnik Turkey.

Russia has also blasted the US over the strike as it
continues support of al-Assad.

Putin and Iran have both threatened
military retaliation if the US takes anymore action in
Syria.

Britain’s foreign secretary Boris Johnson said Syria could be hit
again by the US, despite the war talk from Russia and the
Ayatollah.

Mr Johnson cancelled a trip to Moscow amid the tensions with
Russia in a move blasted by the Kremlin.

Meanwhile, tensions are
raging in with North Korea over Kim Jong-un’s nukes as the USS Carl Vinson
strike group moves into the Korean Peninsula.

According to independent journalist Mike Cernovich, National
Security Advisor H. R. McMaster is trying to get Trump to sign off on a plan
that would put 150,000 US troops on the ground in Syria.

According to
Cernovich:

Current National Security Adviser Herbert Raymond H. R.
McMaster is manipulating intelligence reports given to President Donald
Trump, Cernovich Media can now report. McMaster is plotting how to sell a
massive ground war in Syria to President Trump with the help of
disgraced former CIA director and convicted criminal David Petraeus, who
mishandled classified information by sharing documents with his
mistress.

As NSA, McMaste's job is to synthesize intellience reports from
all other agencies. President Trump is being given an inaccurate picture of
the situation in Syria, as McMaster is seeking to involve the U.S. in a
full scale war in Syria.

The McMaster-Petraeus plan calls for 150,000
American ground troops in Syria.

It looks like "safe zones"
(occupation for "humanitarian" reasons) are off the table.

McMaster
isn't even trying to disguise his real intentions, apparently.

IVANKA Trump’s distress at seeing images of Syrian
children struggling to breath following the chemical attack at Khan Sheikoun
played a strong role in her father’s decision to launch US air strikes, a
diplomat has suggested.

UK ambassador to Washington Sir Kim Darroch
told the UK Government the President was "genuinely shaken" by images of
children broadcast after the deadly attack that killed up to 80 people in
the Syrian town.

A diplomatic telegram to London following the decision
to launch air strikes pointed to a tweet from Ivanka saying she was
"heartbroken and outraged by the images coming out of Syria", The Sunday
Times reports.

The cable said her worry was a "significant influence in
the Oval Office" and led to the "stronger than expected" reaction from
leadership.

Heartbroken and outraged by the images coming out of
Syria following the atrocious chemical attack yesterday. — Ivanka
Trump (@IvankaTrump) April 5, 2017

The times we are living in call
for difficult decisions - Proud of my father for refusing to accept these
horrendous crimes against humanity https://t.co/yV0oJuC9dE — Ivanka
Trump (@IvankaTrump) April 7, 2017

On April 6, Mr Trump said "beautiful
babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack" in his speech
announcing the strikes.

"No child of God should ever suffer such horror,"
he said.

The decision marked a rapid policy shift for the Trump
administration and reversed the President’s previous decision on entering
Syria which he said would be "very bad" for the US following an earlier
chemical weapons attack in 2013.

It also followed an interview given
by Ivanka on April 5 in which she told CBS’ This Morning she would continue
her advocacy work but will "weigh in with my father on the issues I feel
strongly about."

Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner have become two of
the President’s closest and most trusted advisers following his
inauguration.

Both have met foreign leaders and advised him on a huge
range of domestic and international issues.

Their children, Arabella
and Joseph, even entertained the Chinese President Xi Jinping and First Lady
Peng Liyuan while they were staying in Florida.

Very proud of
Arabella and Joseph for their performance in honor of President Xi Jinping
and Madame Peng Liyuan's official visit to the US!
pic.twitter.com/fu3RIh26UO — Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) April 7,
2017

Thank you President Xi Jinping and Madame Peng Liyuan for your visit
to the United States

Meanwhile a photo of President Trump’s
National Security Team from the moment the strikes were ordered shows
Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner on the President’s right-hand side looking
directly at him.

His closeness to the President has brought him into
direct conflict with joint chief of staff Steve Bannon, who has recently
been dumped from Mr Trump’s National Security Council and is shown towards
the back of the room in the picture of the critical moment.

The InfoWars founder hosted the political
dirty trickster — who’s under investigation for possible ties to Russian
intelligence — on his program Friday to discuss the military
action.

The conversation followed a conspiratorial trail that led from
Syria through the West Wing to the Upper West Side, and all the way to
Silicon Valley, and fell apart when Jones blamed Kushner and his wife,
Ivanka Trump, for every bad decision made so far by the
president.

"It’s them, it’s them — it’s his daughter and son-in-law who
are literally enemies of the Republic!" Jones shouted.

At the start
of the discussion, Stone suggested the chemical weapons attack, which Trump
used to justify the military action, might have been staged as part of a
conspiracy to draw the president into war in the Middle East.

"What’s
interesting to me is this push by the generals, which I believe is aided by
the president’s son-in-law (Kushner), to essentially shed the
non-interventionist position that he stuck to very closely in the campaign
and become George W. Bush," Stone said. "The people, if they wanted a
neocon, they would have elected Jeb (Bush)."

Jones blamed "President
Kushner" for the torrent of media leaks from the White House, which he
described as a "jihad" to go after "hardcore conservatives and patriots"
like Steve Bannon for opposing the airstrike.

"I can absolutely certify
that Steve Bannon was opposed to this intervention in Syria, and he
obviously lost an internal argument," Stone claimed.

He said the
White House blamed the chief strategist for the failures of the travel ban
and the health care bill, which Stone claims was written by former House
Speaker John Boehner and foisted on Bannon by Kushner.

"Bannon’s a
fighter, and I do think he will survive, but what we have to figure out is
whether his role is diminished," Stone said. "One obvious problem is that he
really hasn’t spent any capital to bring other nationalists who supported
Trump into the White House."

Bannon, in fact, has brought several of his
employees at Breitbart News — including an apparent member of a European
Nazi group — to work for him at the White House, although none of them is
married to the president’s eldest daughter.

"Unfortunately, Steve
Bannon has not gone to bat for other nationalists, and therefore he finds
himself on the White House staff largely without allies," Stone said. "My
greatest concern, in all honesty, is watching the Silicon Valley barons wine
and dine Jared and Ivanka — the Google people, the Facebook people — those
who are seeking to choke InfoWars and Stone Cold Truth and Breitbart News
and Daily Caller."

Jones agreed Kushner and his wife appeared to be part
of a broad Democratic conspiracy to shut down right-wing sites — which he
described as guardians of the republic, and which the FBI is investigating
for possible ties to Russian agents.

"If there’s anyone on the planet
who would understand this, it’s Steve Bannon," Stone said. "I don’t think
Jared understands that if these censorship initiatives go forward, the
chances of the president’s re-election are zero."

Jones used a series
of code words to warn his listeners that Kushner, who is Jewish, was trying
to undermine his father-in-law, the president.

"He is surrounded by weak,
foppish, left-wing New York socialites," Jones said, and Stone picked up the
thread.

"Meanwhile, we see Jared dining with the head of Google with one
of the toniest restaurants in Manhattan," Stone said. "This is more
disturbing to me than anything else because the future of the Trump
administration and his efforts to make America great again completely pivot
off access to the ‘net and the ability to rally the same people who elected
him."

"I don’t think his motives are bad, I just think his political
judgment is not sound," Stones added.

(6) How does US military power
stack up against North Korea, China and Russia?

THE diversion of US warships to North Korea is a show of
American military power but how does the nation’s weapons capability stack
up against others and can it continue to maintain its
superiority?

While America is undoubtedly the "top dog" when it comes to
its military, experts say North Korea could still land a massive blow
against the US.

"Most pundits think that whatever happens in Korea,
if somebody hits the button, the fighting would be very intense but brief
and would lead to massive devastation," Professor John Blaxland
said.

Prof Blaxland is the acting head of the Strategic and Defence
Studies Centre at the Australian National University and says while the US
has superior weaponry, other countries such as North Korea, China and Russia
have massive stockpiles of weapons and trained military to counteract
this.

According to the Global Firepower website, which collates publicly
available information about the military capability of different
countries, America is ranked number one in terms of its war-making
ability across land, sea and air.

"It has the most powerful military
in the world without question," Prof Blaxland said.

The US annual
defence budget of $581 billion dwarfs China, which spends $155 billion,
Russia on $45 billion and North Korea on $7.5 billion.

But if you look at
how many soldiers America has access to, it’s a different story.

The
US has an active military personnel of 1.4 million, and a reserve army of
1.1 million.

When it comes to soldiers based on the North Korean border,
the US only has about 20,000 troops permanently stationed in South Korea, as
well as about 8000 air force personnel and other special forces. There were
also about 50,000 military personnel based in Japan.

Compare this to
North Korea, which has 700,000 active soldiers, but a whopping 4.5 million
reserves.

Prof Blaxland said North Korea had also massed about 20,000
rockets and missiles on the border with South Korea, and when you are
playing a numbers game, technology doesn’t always win.

"There’s a
saying ‘quantity has a quality all of its own’," he said.

"North Korea
has massed artillery and missile capability adjacent to the demilitarised
zone, close to Seoul, which puts it in range of a population about the size
of Australia — it’s pretty scary."

Prof Blaxland said US troops stationed
in South Korea could probably shoot down a large number of missiles but
chances were, some would still get through.

"It doesn’t matter how
good your technology is, if they get a few rounds off the ground, there will
be mass casualties."

"The problem is the quantity, just the sheer mass,"
he said. "(Especially) if you aren’t that concerned about how many people
die in the process, which Kim Jong-un isn’t."

It has been estimated
that in this scenario North Korea could potentially kill about 100,000
people.

So while North Korea may not ultimately win a war against
America, it could certainly ensure many people also go down with
it.

This could also be a problem with any matchup between the US and
China or Russia.

All three countries have nuclear weapons but would
not be motivated to use them as any retaliation would likely annihilate them
as well.

Prof Blaxland said the Russians had massive firepower capability
including ships, submarines and armed forces. Recently the Russians had
demonstrated in Ukraine that they had the ability to bombard a 1km
square area of land and "basically clean it out".

"That is a
frightening prospect," he said.

He said China had put a lot of emphasis
on its cyber technology, as well as copying western technology. It had long
range munitions that could sink an aircraft carrier or knock down satellite
systems the US relies on heavily.

While there was no question the US
had the most powerful and technologically advanced military in the world,
Prof Blaxland said no matter how good an aircraft was, if it was overwhelmed
by dozens of enemy craft then "you’ll run out of ammo before they
do".

Another issue is that the US’s forces are dispersed across the
world, with troops in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, as well as Europe, Latvia,
Australia, Korea, Japan, Guam and Hawaii.

"The US is incredibly
powerful militarily but if it takes on more than one big fight at a time,
it’s probably biting off more than it can chew," he said.

In the
past, Prof Blaxland said America’s military was designed with the capability
to fight two and a half "major theatre wars" at the same, but these days it
is in a position where it could barely do one or maybe one and a
half.

"Bearing in mind that they are already tied down in Afghanistan,
Iraq and Syria, they are considerably constrained (to fight a major war),"
he said.

TOKYO
-- Amid rising tensions between the U.S. and North Korea, a U.S. aircraft
carrier-led strike group has altered plans and headed toward the Korean
Peninsula.

The USS Carl Vinson had just been in Busan, South Korea, in
mid-March to participate in Foal Eagle, an annual U.S.-South Korea exercise.
Afterward, the 6,000-crew warship moved to Singapore and was scheduled
to make a port visit to Australia.

Instead, Adm. Harry Harris, the
commander of the U.S. Pacific Command -- which oversees all U.S. forces in
the Pacific -- instructed the Carl Vinson Strike Group on April 8 to sail
north once again.

It is the latest measure taken by the Donald Trump
administration to show the world, especially China, that the U.S. strategy
toward North Korea has changed. North Korea has recently repeatedly tested
ballistic missiles, threatening to test a intercontinental ballistic missile
that could reach the U.S. Trump is signaling that his administration is not
shy to use force to prevent such development.

A mobile naval base,
capable of carrying 90 aircraft to the enemy, the aircraft carrier is the
Navy's most visible display of power. Accompanying the Carl Vinson are the
Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Wayne E. Meyer and USS
Michael Murphy, as well as the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS
Lake Champlain.

Going solo?

The move follows the first meeting
between President Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, on April 6
and 7, during which they failed to craft a concrete plan to address the
North Korean nuclear and missile threats. Trump told Xi that if China would
not help it deal with Pyongyang, the U.S. may act alone.

The Carl
Vinson had been in the region in March, when U.S. and South Korean forces
conducted their annual exercise, Foal Eagle. That exercise was also rich in
symbolism, due to the presence of an unusual participant.

North Korean
leader Kim Jong Un must have known exactly what it meant when he learned
that the U.S. Navy's SEAL Team 6 arrived in South Korea to join Foal Eagle
in early March.

The Navy's Special Warfare Development Group, as it is
officially called, is the counterterrorism unit that killed Al Qaeda leader
Osama bin Laden in May 2011. Six years after that stunning and successful
operation, the Trump administration arranged for the SEAL team to take
part in the exercise for the first time, alongside the Army's Rangers,
Green Berets and Delta Force.

In the exercises, which ran to April,
the SEALs trained to infiltrate North Korea, sabotage key military
facilities, secure nuclear weapons and eliminate Kim. The key objectives of
this year's event signal that the U.S. policy toward North Korea has entered
a new stage.

The new strategy is thought to have been influenced by
high-profile defector Thae Yong Ho, who predicted that Kim Jong Un will use
nuclear weapons against the U.S. unless he is "eliminated"
first.

Thae, Pyongyang's former deputy ambassador to the U.K. and who
defected to South Korea in 2016, provided insights into Kim's thinking when
he described the North's development of intercontinental ballistic missiles
in a recent interview with NBC News. "Once he sees that there is any
kind of sign of a tank or an imminent threat from America, then he will
use his nuclear weapons with ICBMs," he said.

Kim responded with
another ballistic missile launch on April 5.

Syria attack

The war
games between the U.S. and North Korea have elevated tensions in the
Asia-Pacific region to new heights. It was against this backdrop that Trump
hosted Xi at his private resort in Florida.

While the two leaders were
enjoying dinner on the first night, the U.S. conducted military strikes in
Syria, informing Xi of the operation only toward the end of the
meal.

Just hours before the Trump-Xi meeting, a top U.S. Navy official
told reporters in Tokyo that the strategy to deter North Korea's nuclear
program was not working, hinting that a new approach was in the
making.

Adm. Scott Swift, the four-star commander of the U.S. Pacific
Fleet, said: "Up to this point I think it is fair to say that economic and
diplomatic efforts have not supported the progress people have been
anticipating and looking forward to."

He went on to say that "200
ships, over 1,200 aircraft and 140,000 sailors" under his command, belonging
to the 7th and 3rd Fleets, would be combined and ready for the president's
discretion as a contingency measure.

After initially remaining silent
on the matter, Pyongyang responded with a Foreign Ministry statement on the
evening of April 8. It called the U.S. attack on the Syrian air force base
"absolutely unpardonable" and "an undisguised act of aggression against a
sovereign state."

It also said: "Some forces are loudmouthed that the
recent U.S. military attack on Syria is an action of warning us, but we are
not frightened by it."

Spooked neighbors

The escalation is
making other nations in the region nervous.

The Indonesian government
expressed its displeasure over the "unilateral actions" by the U.S. in
launching a missile strike into Syria. "Military actions, undertaken without
prior authorization of the U.N. Security Council, are not in line with
international legal principles in the peaceful settlement of disputes as
stipulated in the U.N. Charter," Foreign Ministry spokesman Arramanatha
Nasir told reporters on April 7.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe,
fresh from a stay at Trump's Florida resort, said, "The government of Japan
supports the determination of the U.S. government that it will never allow
the spread and use of chemical weapons." But the statement fell short of
expressing approval. "We understand that the U.S. took the action to prevent
further aggravation of the situation," it said.

Philippine President
Rodrigo Duterte, who has been under fire domestically for cozying up to
China and is under pressure to strengthen ties with Washington, is finding
it hard to come up with a response. "As chair of ASEAN, Duterte will find it
increasingly difficult to coordinate with the U.S. and China," said Junya
Ishii, senior analyst at think tank Sumitomo Corp. Global
Research.

Erik Prince, the founder of the
mercenary company Blackwater, admitted that he met with an ally of Russian
President Vladimir Putin during then-President-elect Donald Trump’s
transition.

The Washington Post reported last week that Prince held a
secret meeting with a Putin confidant in the Seychelles islands "as part of
an apparent effort to establish a back-channel line of communication between
Moscow and President-elect Donald Trump."

"U.S. officials said the
FBI has been scrutinizing the Seychelles meeting as part of a broader probe
of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and alleged contacts
between associates of Putin and Trump," the Post noted.

In an
interview with the Financial Times that was published on Monday, Prince
acknowledge that the meeting had occurred but insisted that it was
"incidental."

Prince admitted an "incidental" meeting but denied anything
of consequence was discussed, blaming "permanent seditious bureaucrats" in
the US intelligence community for leaking the information.

Prince
also said that the business his current company, Frontier Services Group,
was doing with China did not include mercenary services.

But Peter Singer
of the New America Foundation told the Financial Times that "Machiavelli
would be amused, but not surprised" at Prince’s collaboration with the
Chinese government.

"It is fascinating to see someone, who was so quick
to wrap himself in the flag whenever there was a controversy in the past,
now go to work for a US adversary." Singer said.

About Me

'Mission statement'.
I am convinced that jewish individuals and groups have an enormous influence on the world. The MSM are, for almost all people, the only source of information, and these are largely controlled by jewish people.
So there is a huge under-reporting on jewish influence in the world.
I see it as my mission to try to close this gap. To quote Henry Ford: "Corral the 50 wealthiest jews and there will be no wars." `(Thomas Friedman wrote the same in Haaretz, about the war against Iraq! See yellow marked area, blog 573)
If that is true, my mission must be very beneficial to humanity.